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Diablo IV announced
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Thanks! Yeah we're still alive and kicking but it's been very quiet.
I had that same thought as well about the current gen announcement, but I think it makes a lot of sense for Blizzard to do a release approach similar to what they did with Diablo 3 on consoles (current gen in 2020, next gen in 2021 or 2022), perhaps even including a late Diablo 4 release on Switch 2.
Spell effects, animations, enemy models almost seem like carbon copies from Diablo 3.
You could ask the same for the Souls games. Before Diablo 3, these games were dark, gothic, creepy, nasty, super atmospheric, etc. The series had a real ambiance to it that was pretty much killed with Diablo 3 (which was admittedly still a really fun game).
None of what was shown reminds me of gothic, occult or DII ... man such a bummer after the excellent artbook leak and CGI Intro. Hope they do a ton of work. Animations are straight out of DIII and look out of place with their sponginess.
That look GOOD!
But it's probably not gonna be for me. I tried Diablo 3, Torchlight and so on and after a while they just become so repetitive for me.
But it's probably not gonna be for me. I tried Diablo 3, Torchlight and so on and after a while they just become so repetitive for me.
It all comes down to loot so we have to see how it all pans out but I am definitely keeping an eye on it. Runes (Runewords), Charms, ect. are a must unless they are going POE style "currency". Gold as a currency doesnt really work anymore. Even D2 gold was just used for repairs or gambling.
I definitely don't expect them to be able to meet the standard set by PoE by this point, considering they are largely starting from stretch for D4. I just want them to set the right foundation, so that in a year or two, we'd have a really good Diablo game that Diablo 3 wasn't. Now I just hope the set items were 4 piece max, and not 6.
Please have a skilltree or something where i can upgrade what i want. Looks a lot better than diablo 3 to me. Animation blending look a little stiff but it's work in progress.
Yup. Also the fact that the blood effects are so dark makes everything even harder to distinguish. It's just...not nice to look at. At all.
Looks like a blonde, white Barbarian in that first shot. A trick of the lighting maybe? Definitely the same character model in both shots, and the skin tone looks very different.
You should play Dragon's Dogma, dude. As a HUGE Diablo fan, I played that game this past summer and couldn't stop thinking "this is so a third-person Diablo game".
Eh, gameplay looks good, albeit more of the same. I was really interested in the changes they were going for with the cancelled versions of Diablo 4. But this still looks like itll be good.
I think the 3 classes look to basic from the gameplay trailer. I want to see some of the other classes stand out a bit more.
Basically, I just want Lost Ark to come out in the West damnit!
I think the 3 classes look to basic from the gameplay trailer. I want to see some of the other classes stand out a bit more.
Basically, I just want Lost Ark to come out in the West damnit!
Yeah... lol, played the game three months ago again with a Demon Hunter, and this looks way better, people have no idea what they are talking about.
Looks awesome!
big improvement over 3 in style
day 1 for sure, I still loved 3 and this looks great
big improvement over 3 in style
day 1 for sure, I still loved 3 and this looks great
Dark Souls isn't so zoomed out that all the enemies and characters blend in with the environment.
Well damn, I stand very corrected. Did they use Blur in the past or am I just way off thinking of someone else? And congrats to that team. It's really great.
Yeah I love Dogma and I agree, it's a solid template for a potential 3rd person Diablo.
I think it's okay to comment on how good a game looks as a separate conversation from that other one. No one in here is saying "READY TO GIVE BLIZZARD MY MONEY".
Yeah I wouldn't say this is the most amazing ARPG ever (Lost Ark looks better) but it's actually a respectable upgrade over D3, which is filled with low poly assets. I think D4 lacks good lighting though. The visuals don't quite "pop", but maybe it's intended as they wanna go for the more muted visuals.
On lighting, they said they want the areas to be darker but I still see places where there is no apparent lightsource nearby, yet they're all quite lit up. Maybe light radius is a stat they had but I doubt that.
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It doesnt even matter, its garbage by association. Free Hong Kong.
randomized dungeons for rare loot, and find any item without joining a group. Keyed dungeons will offer a new endgame experience available to individual players as well as groups of up to four!
I'm curious to know if they can make a decent campaign, as Diablo 3 was largely a slog. The ingame cinematic looks impressive, but it is hard to tell how it connects to the gameplay.
I would prefer 3 max, with 4 being very rare. Even 3 quite substantially limit rest character itemization. Even PoE has this problem with some builds that require 3-4 unique items to work, which limits other slots, thankfully they try to mitigate from league to league with special rares with every new league.
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Campaign doesnt matter really, what they need to nail is character leveling process.
I'm in the other camp, Diablo to me IS isometric, but as long as it would've been good - I would've been pretty happy to see something like that, too.